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Ronita Chattopadhyay

@ronita.bsky.social
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Gave myself permission to be a poet; Love books, mountains and tea; working at the intersection of process documentation and qualitative research in India

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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Peanuts began publication on October 2, 1950. Happy Birthday! It earned a place in the chapter on optimism in my book, "Leadership Lessons with The Beatles." Excerpt here: www.linkedin.com/posts/shanth...
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The beloved cartoon Peanuts began publication on October 2, 1950. Happy Birthday! It earned a place in the chapter on optimism in my book, "Leadership Lessons with The Beatles. " Here is ...
The beloved cartoon Peanuts began publication on October 2, 1950. Happy Birthday! It earned a place in the chapter on optimism in my book, "Leadership Lessons with The Beatles. " Here is the excerp...
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A hospital room, a puzzle, and the regrets of grief--all in this beautiful piece by @amaliag.bsky.social. Do read "Hourglass" and be ready to feel. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Hourglass by Amalia Gladhart
When Sadie was sick, I used to do puzzles with her. Not with her, exactly. She was too tired to sit up or concentrate much, and the chemo gave her brain fog. But I’d do a puzzle on a card table beside...
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Any research pros out there? I’m trying to locate the rights holder for a painting…
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 02/10/2026
Remember books? Weight in your hands. Paper beneath your fingers. A cover you keep looking at. Poems you return to. BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS is a proper hardback made to last. Edited by Alan Parry He/Him & Karen Pierce Gonzalez shorturl.at/126Ks
Book cover for Beautiful Little Fools: Poetry of Glamour, Obsession, and the Gilded Age. A stylised Art Deco illustration shows a sharply dressed man in a black tuxedo and a glamorous woman in a black cloche hat, with geometric black, white and burgundy shapes behind them. The title appears in large white lettering on a deep burgundy panel, with The Broken Spine logo at the bottom.
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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This.
Mimesis
Fady Joudah 

My daughter 
wouldn't hurt a spider
That had nested 
Between her bicycle handles 
For two weeks
She waited 
Until it left of its own accord

If you tear down the web I said 
It will simply know 
This isn't a place to call home 
And you'd get to go biking 

She said that's how others 
Become refugees isn't it?
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@m-ixedbag.bsky.social will be representing Lit Namjooning and @smokelong.bsky.social at this year's Singapore Writers Festival! We're so excited to make our SWF debut! If you're in Singapore on Nov 20, do come! More details about the panel here: www.singaporewritersfestival.com/programmes/i...
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Invisible Hands: Curating Contemporary Writing from Singapore
Discover 10 days of talks, panels, and performances that celebrate stories in every form. Filter by language, genre, or programme type \u2013 and make the most of your SG Culture Pass with eligible ev...
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Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*ahem* 1,911 posts. 1,342 writers. 5 years. Issue #100 live now. Give your grandma her lucky number before she heads to the bingo hall, yes? www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #WritingCommunity
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Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Literary Namjooning (and @smokelong.bsky.social) and @eunoiareview.bsky.social showing up at the Singapore Writers Festival Reveal event. What a great evening. SWF runs from 13-22 November. Do come if you’re around.
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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@susanlleary.bsky.social it feels strange to congratulate considering what is being written about but you have a way revisiting personal loss in ways that speak to so many of us. Hope the book travels well.
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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beautiful. All three of them. @stdougherty.bsky.social
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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A new magazine on Tamil literature in English www.southboundreview.com
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Southbound Review
A living Tamil weekly of literature, film, arts & ideas
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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life. J R R Tolkien
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AJ Odasso @ajodasso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Are any #presses / #publishers open to submissions of out-of-print #poetry collections? Ever since Tolsun Books went under, I’ve been worried about my 2019 collection, “The Sting of It,” going out of print. Amazon & others have finally marked it as such. Any leads or offers would be helpful!
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️
Rachel Carson photo credit: Science History Images / Alamy
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At the link, the best of The Marginalian this week in one place – how to speak forest, a field guide to falling in love better, and a live celebration of wonder: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A drawing from 'The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse' by Charlie Mackesy with the text, 
"What do you want to be when you grow up? Kind, said the boy." 
It shows a boy sitting on a tree branch with a mole.
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Last Sunday’s poem was 421 words. Today’s poem is 15. Courtesy of @ezhang77.bsky.social neonpajamas.substack.com/p/091-poem-p...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At the age of 90 year old, Czech former agricultural worker Agnes Kasparkova continued her 13 year project to decorate her small village with hand-painting traditional Moravian motifs on the local houses #womensart
Three images, one of a window surrounded by blue floral patterns on a white exterior wall, two other images of an elderly womam painting the designs
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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎵And I would do anything for love I'd run right into hell and back I would do anything for love I'll never lie to you and that's a fact youtu.be/9X_ViIPA-Gc Remembering Michael Lee Aday (Meat Loaf) on his birthday. 💐💐💐 #musicsky #music
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Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) (Official Music Video)
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, working at a desk. A brain next to her says, "We need to take breaks!"
The second panel zooms in on Sarah's face. She is annoyed. She says, "What if I don't listen to you?"
The third panel shows the brain smiling.
The fourth panel shows the brain reaching towards a lever. The brain says, "I'LL MAKE YOU."
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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Issue 24 FINALLY arrived from the printer yesterday. I'll begin mailing subscriber copies and pre-orders on Saturday. Now would be a wonderful time to buy a copy of Stanchion's penultimate issue. It's really terrific, only $10 & everyone was paid. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧶 #knitsky Any reccos for fun sock patterns for a 3 year old? More stress on fun than utility. TIA 😁
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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Spotted these today (Rangan flowers)
Pink Rangan flowers with green leaves and a part of a wall visible in the background
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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A tremendous list of things that have helped one writer to write, which I'm sure will have many of us nodding in agreement: copyandotherburdens.substack.com/p/20-things-...
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20 things that help me write
(In no particular order)
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Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Friends, our submission inbox is completely empty. If you'd be so kind as to help us spread the word among your communities it would be so greatly appreciated. heroinchic.weebly.com
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What art does for us is not dependent on the art or the creator. It is what it leaves behind—its residue, its atomic shadow, its eternal tremor. How many rooms did it unlock within us? -- Lisa Marie Basile, “The poetic permissions of dream logic & otherworlds”
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.” ~ Langston Hughes #RadioFreeAmerica #politics
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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely thrilled that my debut book, a flash fiction collection, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social is out Oct. 13. Kindle preorders now on Amazon. Printed text available 10/13. Remote launch SAT 11/14, 10:00 am PT. Details soon. Heartfelt thanks @vanwinkle.bsky.social. #flashfiction
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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This.
No Explosions
Naomi Shihab Nye 

To enjoy 
fireworks 
you would have 
to have lived 
a different kind 
of life
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Britt Rose the Artist @brittrosetheartist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If no one sees your art, it is still a revolution . You freed yourself, did you not?
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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So I wrote this last year mostly about the struggles of writing what we know/love when the world around us seems to want to pigeonhole and be prescriptive about those things. Still relevant, methinks. mythopoetica.com/2025/03/26/c...
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Cozy? Domestic? Romantasy? On Labels and the Gatekeeping of Subgenres – through wildwood, through water
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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So apparently I write poems now and here are three that Jagged Edge very kindly took. The line breaks (I’m a bit chuffed with them) work best on desktop. I also like “Where is the slip inside you that allows an ugly man in” hope you do too 🧡 www.jaggededge.org/read/three-p...
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Three Poems by Sumitra Singam — jagged edge
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Archita recently lost her father to cancer, & she's trying desperately to keep her mother alive as she in turn fights a rare & aggressive cancer. She's got no other support or insurance, & is a freelancer. The costs are prohibitive. She'd be most grateful for any help. Thank you for sharing/giving 🤍
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Poetry in Parks @poetryinparks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Our 36th meet is in a Kharghar park on 19th September, at 5:00 p.m. The theme is poems about AI. To be clear, NOT AI generated poems, but poets commenting on AI. To get the map location, calendar invitation, please write to us at poetry.in.parks.nm @ gmail.com by Saturday noon.
The Poetry in Parks logotype, a purple circle within which are the words ‘Poetry in Parks’ in pink letters, appears at left of and above centre. To the right, and below centre, is another smaller purple circle, is the info for the meet: Kharghar, 5:00 p.m., 19 September. The background of the frame is the same pink as the lettering.
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Are you an older writer looking for somewhere to submit. Here is a great list put together by Trish Hopkins Full disclosure I am one of the editors of @thin-skin.bsky.social #writers #poets trishhopkinson.com/2026/09/16/n...
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No Fee Lit Mags & Journals for Poets Over 50
I’ve been gathering journals and magazines that publish work by older writers As always, a good poem is a good poem, and older writers publish everywhere. But sometimes it helps to know which journ…
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Ingrid Srinath @ingridsrinath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This mud-walled home in Devdungri is where the vision for India’s rights to information (RTI) and work (MGNREGA) first took shape as Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey, and Shankar Singh established the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghatan (MKSS) together with local communities.
Entrance to mud-walled home with traditional painting and water pots.
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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
✨Light Chemical Sea | Unboxing Video✨ Only a few more months until 'Light Chemical Sea' is officially released on November 10, 2026. youtu.be/PJ9zOu6cZ_4
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Light Chemical Sea | Unboxing Video
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Archita Mittra @architamittra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sorry to reshare this again but my mother underwent another surgery last week and then we learned that chemo had decimated her red blood cells so she's in hospital again. I'm extremely sick myself, so if you can chip in anything or share, it will help us both to stay alive. 😭🧿🫶 #mutualaid
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Excited to have a new poem in the beautiful Sweet Lit.💙
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This Stone House It’s curious. The rocks have faces. There’s Mother in bed, too blue to rise, a crack in the foundation. Father, all show, as decorative as cornices. Siblings, gone: My older sister…
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
For this week’s #smallpoemsunday, here’s one from BRINK WAS THE WORD I WAS LOOKING FOR, a collaborative chap between myself & @darkwebtofu.bsky.social! Thanks to @diodeeditions.bsky.social for believing in these poems! Read the rest here: diodepoetry.com/leary_susan_... @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Soft Machinery

Drowned lilies in a basin behind chapel doors.
The feeling of a snail crawling down the throat.

Of history, is it the metaphor or the body that dies?
The float of seasons, a widening orbit, the book older and stranger.

Standard are the ways we hurt each other, however slowly it may make us.
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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
At home.
A black and white photo of two dokra figures - a seated woman reading a book and Lord Ganesh - next to a stack of books
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"I ask if she’s talked to him about it, the contradictions, and we both look at the clock. She keeps going." @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/my-therapist...
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My Therapist Tells Me About Her Husband - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
➡️ Introducing the new e(i Drive Award for a single poem: buff.ly/LJqK1eU NO SUB FEE OPEN 8/15 - 9/30 Prize: $205.58, e(i tshirt, swag Final judge: Donald Zirilli Send in your best!
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Paragraph Planet @paragraphplanet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Calling all #writers: Paragraph Planet seeks your 75-word #flashfiction. Submit today! www.paragraphplanet.com/submission.php
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Bansa Community Library @bansalibrary.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What happens when a child in Bansa wants to learn something that isn’t available around them? At Bansa Library, we try not to let the answer be, “You can’t, because there’s no one here to teach you.”
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Sarvin Parviz @sarprvz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Any personal essay classes online you’d recommend? #writingcommunity
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I lost my Dad this summer and wrote something the day after his funeral mass. Thank you dearest @m-ixedbag.bsky.social and @lit-namjooning.bsky.social team for including it and another piece in your beautiful Issue 3. ❤️https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/this-new-zealand-by-pat-foran
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This New Zealand by Pat Foran
I didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...
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